He said: “My thoughts about that is that I’ve been speaking about that for the last three weeks and now I’d just like to place a period on all those conversations.”

Asked if Miller would be in the squad, he added: “Period. Period. Period. Period in Portuguese means ‘point finale’. It means finished, no more questions.”

But despite days of headlines, the Ibrox manager inists his focus has not shifted from Stephen Robinson’s Well outfit.

He said: “It is [frustrating to still be discussing this] but I need to be polite in some moments and kind and respectful. In others I need to be abrupt and say it is time to place a period on this issue.